Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, announced today that it now protects Ecobank’s infrastructure from cyber-attacks with Radware’s Hybrid Attack Mitigation Solution, which includes both on-premises and cloud-based Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) mitigation.

Ecobank is a leading pan-African bank with operations in 36 countries across the continent, providing financial solutions to businesses, governments and individual customers. The bank was in the process of redesigning its network when it turned to Radware to help protect its infrastructure from cyber-attacks.

As a leading financial institution, Ecobank cannot afford any downtime. It needs a solution that can automatically protect it from a wide range of attacks and keep its operations running, even while fending off attack. Radware’s Attack Mitigation Solution (AMS) including DefensePro® in the perimeter, Cloud DDoS Protection Services and Defence SSL protection now provides them with integrated and comprehensive attack protection from one provider.

“The financial services industry suffered 44 million cyber-attacks in 2016, making it the most targeted industry,” according to Radware’s 2016-17 Global Application & Network Security Report. Not only is the financial industry at high risk, but hackers have taken advantage of this shift by using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to conceal their attacks. According to Mozilla Firefox, SSL encrypted traffic represented 50% of all internet traffic, up 10% just in 2016.

“We selected Radware as our attack mitigation partner because they offered the most advanced and comprehensive attack mitigation solution available,” said AbabacarSedikheDiagne, Head, Telecoms and Network of Ecobank. “Radware’s solution provides us with automatic detection and mitigation of advanced, volumetric, and encrypted attacks. We love that we can work with one vendor to protect both our cloud and on-premises infrastructure and we have high confidence in the Radware team, who consistently goes the extra mile to support us.”

“Ecobank evaluated Radware’s technology thoroughly,” said Yoav Gazelle, Vice President of EMEA & CALA for Radware. “Our integrated solution proved to be the most thorough and responsive of all the solutions tested. Radware’s AMS gives the customer expansive regional coverage and comprehensive business risk mitigation to support their multi-national operation.”